Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Ten, Lesson Two: Nouns and Verbs

  1. each
  2. peach
  3. teacher
  4. sweat
  5. leather
  6. weather
  7. neat
  8. great
  9. vapor
  10. ice
  1. solid
  2. gas
  3. steam
  4. snow
  5. sleet
  6. glicier
  7. stream
  8. melt
  9. crust
  10. fourth
Nouns and Verbs

There are words which can be used as nouns or verbs. You can tell which function they fulfill by the context in which they are used. Consider these two sentences: 


1) Jack shot at the target.

2) Jack's shot was on target.
In the first sentence the word "shot" is a verb because it is the action performed by Jack. In the second sentence the word "shot", is a noun because it is something possessed by Jack (therefore it is a thing). Remember that nouns name persons, places, or things. Verbs name actions.

Here is another similar example: 


1) Jill's wait lasted four hours.

2) Jill had to wait four hours.
In the first sentence the "wait" is a thing which lasted four hours. In the second sentence "wait" with the help of some helping verbs in an action which Jill performed (and it still took four hours).

Here's an additional example: 


1) It will snow all day.

2) Did you have a chance to play in the snow?
In the first sentence "snow" is a verb and in the second it is a noun.

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